Monday, April 23, 2018

Really, Have We Stooped to This?

I went looking for background information on Alek Minassian, the suspect in the Toronto van massacre. That led me to a site, jewishbreakingnews.com. They had the basic details and then added the standard sympathies comment from the prime minister:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his sympathies for those involved. “Our hearts go out to everyone affected,” Trudeau said in Ottawa. “We are going to have more to learn and more to say in the coming hours.”

'If' the horrendous act was born of religion then I would suggest that the time has long past when we should have put such superstition to the bottom of our daily 'to do' list.There are those, such as the Roman Catholic Pope, who try to right wrongs and to enlighten future generations.Others of all religions would rush humanity to destroy itself.The exceptions to the rule would be those that profit from their beliefs and those that enjoy the hate that accompanies it.

Mound, what concerns me whenever someone runs amok is the response by police and governments in the weeks that follow. There is always a public demand to do something to prevent this happening again. Of course, it is impossible to prevent people from running amok but governments tend to use the excuse to tighten up the laws and police tend to armor up. Little by little we lose our freedoms.

Brunner was amazingly prophetic."The Sheep Look Up" (1972) predicts the degraded environment and the capitalist response like "Whole Foods" where they make the product LOOK wholesome enough to sell. I think he even got the name right.

In our dystopian present, the founder of Whole Foods, Mackey, is an anti-union libertarian. Now owned by Bezos/Amazon.

I shop at the independent grocers as much as possible. Funny, "farmers markets" are just as expensive as WF.